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ASCAP honored the composers of
the biggest box office film music and the most
performed television music of 2004 at its 20th
Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
gala held on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The
Society also celebrated the Centennial of legendary
songwriter and composer Harold Arlen. Over
750 members of the music industry elite attended
the event, which was hosted by Academy-Award
winning lyricist and President and Chairman of
ASCAP, Marilyn Bergman.
One of the many highlights of the
evening was the presentation of the ASCAP
Henry Mancini Award to Academy-Award
nominee and three-time Emmy winner John
Debney in recognition of his outstanding
achievements and contributions to the music of
film and television. Director, actor and choreographer
Adam Shankman, who collaborated with Debney on
the recent hit The Pacifier, joined
Marilyn Bergman on stage to present the award
to Debney, who is the youngest composer to receive
this honor.
Past recipients of the ASCAP Henry
Mancini Award include Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand,
Johnny Mandel, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard,
Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, and Hans Zimmer.
Another highlight of the evening
was the presentation of the ASCAP Golden
Note Award to Mark Snow in
recognition of his unprecedented success over
the past twenty years as one of the most versatile
and popular composers in television and film.
On hand to pay tribute to Snow were producer,
director and writer Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files,
Millennium, Harsh Realm), Hart To Hart co-star
and star of a new theatre production of The
King & I, Stefanie Powers, and Debney's
sister-in-law and co-star of the long-running
TV hit, Cagney and Lacy, Tyne
Daly.
Snow has received awards every
year at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
since their inception in 1986, and now joins
a select group of songwriters and composers who
have received the ASCAP Golden Note Award including
Stevie Wonder, Andre Previn, Jay-Z, Garth Brooks,
Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, José Feliciano,
Alan Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Elton
John and Tom Petty.
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As one of the most significant songwriters of the modern era,
Harold Arlen composed such memorable tunes as "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy
Weather," "It's Only a Paper Moon," "I Gotta Right to Sing
the Blues," "A Sleepin' Bee" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine."
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The evening also celebrated the
Centennial of legendary songwriter and composer Harold
Arlen with the special presentation
of a commemorative plaque to Arlen's son, Sam,
and Sam's wife Joan. As part of the celebration,
Sam, a saxophonist who has recently released
a CD entitled Arlen Plays Arlen, performed
one of his father's classic hits, "Stormy Weather." Sam
and Joan recently established a scholarship through
The ASCAP Foundation to help further the careers
of composers and songwriters in both film and
television music and musical theatre.
ASCAP also presented awards in
four categories -- Most Performed Themes, Most
Performed Underscore, Top Television Series,
and Top Box Office Films -- to several veteran
film and television music composers as well as
to the best and brightest of a new generation
of writers. ASCAP composers in attendance
included Jack Allocco, Marco Beltrami, Jeff Cardoni,
Frank Catanzara, Dan Foliart, Grant Geissmn,
Michael Giacchino, Jeff Gibbs, Reinhold Heil,
Johnny Klimek, David Kurtz, Russ Landau, Michael
Levine, Rick Marotta, Gregor Narholtz (GEMA),
Atli Ovarsson, Michael Skloff, Alan Silvestri,
and David Vanacore. See
the Complete List of Winners.
ASCAP would
like to thank our sponsors:
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